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How to build a personality out of pop culture. The latest emotions from film and music writer Eric Webb.

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Tim Curry, the diva who raised me

As any millennial will tell you, the late star of ‘Clue’ was the thinking man’s ham

Your 'End of Oak Street' questions, answered by a gay idiot

Anne Hathaway upstages the dinosaurs, it’s true

Nothing scarier than being right

A trio of movies about going sane: 'In the Mouth of Madness,' 'The Howling,' and 'Rose of Nevada'

The immortal pettiness of a network TV angel

This episode of 'Touched by an Angel' lives in my tone-deaf head

There are no bad Anne Hathaway movies

OK, maybe she's been in some stinkers. But she's always good in them.

Get in the primordial bisque, Shinji

'Neon Genesis Evangelion' characters I'd join in the human soup, ranked

Gaze upon Adrien Brody's chicken finger art, and America gazes back

Behold the most consequential collage of this, our black mold era.

'Kaboom' walked so 'Riverdale' could run

Gregg Araki's delirious 2000s teen soap pastiche is a sex dream from hell

What 'Supergirl' owes to a forgotten comic book tragedy

Milly Alcock's big-screen story wouldn't exist without 'Many Happy Returns'

I like to imagine my own funeral

On 'The Death of Robin Hood' and life as a chance to craft your own myth

A gay guy primer to 'Masters of the Universe'

Great loincloths, beautiful loincloths

Bloodsuckers! Gen-Z! Football?

My intel from ATX TV Festival, including a sneak peek at 'The Vampire Lestat'

'Everybody (Backstreet's Back)': A music video autopsy

It was a dark and stormy night, and five Orlando heartthrobs made pop history ...

Your friends are the point

On 'Marty, Life is Short' and thinking of your people as the stars of your life

Get over here (please)

If you can't have fun with 'Mortal Kombat II,' you're already dead

Vote for Turning Out!

Clock the double nominations in Austin Chronicle's annual readers poll

Tell Miranda Priestly to get bent

Like an itchy price tag, just one thing takes me out of the fantasy in 'The Devil Wears Prada 2'

Every death in 'House,' ranked

There's an art to devouring the souls of Japanese teenagers

Teenage monsters save the world

Queer horror fans have gotta read 'The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos' by James Tynion IV, Tate Brombal, and Isaac Goodhart.

You need to be watching 'Jeopardy!' right now

Current super champ Jamie Ding is the closest thing we have to a national hero

It's time to admit RoboCop is adorable

ACAB (except for the weaponized cadaver from Paul Verhoeven's 1987 masterpiece)

A toast to the best new TV character of 2026

If it's really a season wrap for Joy Kwon on 'The Pitt,' fly your IV bags at half-mast